US President Donald Trump accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of mismanaging the pandemic leading to its spread to nearly all countries and territories worldwide.

During his address on Tuesday, April 14, he announced his country was halting funding to the United Nations (UN) agency to allow for a review on how it had been steering the fight against coronavirus.

He alleged the health agency was propagating "false information" and charged that its reliance on Chinese data had "likely caused a 20-fold increase in cases worldwide."

"I am instructing my administration to halt funding of the WHO while a review is conducted to assess its role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.

"American taxpayers provide between 400 million and 500 million dollars per year (KSh 40 billion to KSh 50 billion) to WHO and in contrast, China contributes roughly 40 million dollars (KSh 4 billion) a year and even less. As the organisation's leading sponsor the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability," Trump said.

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